DeveloperAuction lets #developers offer their skills for the highest bid.

DeveloperAuction allows developers to offer their skills for the highest price, and lets startups “bid” on developers who are looking for work. In the company’s first auction, which ended August 31st, 88 engineers put themselves up for auction and 142 startups, including Quora and Dropbox, submitted over $30m in job offers . One of the things that generate a lot of interest to us at e27 is the issue of technical talents as well as the developer community. We spoke to DeveloperAuction CEO Matt Mickiewicz to find out more about the site: How is DevelopAuction doing now in terms of traction and what are the main successful case studies so far? The response from the Software Engineering community has been fantastic. Everyone is eager for an alternative to the status quo, which involves mass-messaging thousands of prospective candidates via LinkedIn in hopes of finding someone,...